Bengaluru: On another perfect golfing day, Udayan Mane continued from where he left off yesterday to shoot a commanding four-under par 68 for the day and take the halfway lead of three strokes with a gross of seven-under par 137 at the Tata Steel Karnataka Amateur 2014 being played at the Par-72 Eagleton Golf Resort here.<\/p>\n
Syed Saqib Ahmed surged up the leaderboard with a scintillating bogey free round of six-under par 66 to bring in the best card of the day and be placed tied second alongside Yash Jindal who carded a three-under par 69 for the day for a gross of four-under par 140. Last week\u2019s Southern India Amateur champion Samarth Dwivedi was placed fourth a further two strokes behind at two-under par 142 followed by Jaibir Singh and overnight joint leader Jasjeet Singh at one-under 143.<\/p>\n
Saqib, who began with an overnight score of two-over par 74, quickly got into top gear and was even par for the week after the 2nd hole itself with birdies on each of the opening two holes. He gained another stroke on the Par 5 6th hole to turn three-under for the day and one-under for the week. He gained a further three strokes with birdies on the 11th, 13th and 17th holes to finish a perfect round of golf of six-under 66.<\/p>\n
Mane, meanwhile was his usual self beginning with a birdie on the opening hole followed by another on the Par 3 3rd where his tee shot fell pin high. A couple of dropped shots on the 4th and the 7th brought him back to even par for the day before he steadied the ship with birdies on the 8th, 14th and 17th to safely walk home ahead by three strokes at the end of round 2.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just got into the zone today and bar a couple of avoidable bogeys, I had a pretty solid round.\u201d Said Mane. He added, \u201cSaqib has just played a blinder out there and I hope to replicate it tomorrow to put myself in a stronger position to win this week.\u201d<\/p>\n
Top Scores (after 36 holes):<\/strong><\/p>\n 137 Udayan Mane (69,68); 140 Syed Saqib Ahmed (74,66), Yash Jindal (71,69); 142 Samarth Dwivedi (72,70); 143 Jaibir Singh (71,72), Jasjeet Singh (69,74); 144 Gagan Verma (74,70), Yashas Chandra (73,71); 145 Trishul Chinnappa (71,74), Nikhil Mohan (70,75).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bengaluru: On another perfect golfing day, Udayan Mane continued from where he left off yesterday to shoot a commanding four-under par 68 for the day and take the halfway lead of three strokes with a gross of seven-under par 137 at the Tata Steel Karnataka Amateur 2014 being played at the Par-72 Eagleton Golf Resort here.<\/p>\n Syed Saqib Ahmed surged up the leaderboard with a scintillating bogey free round of six-under par 66 to bring in the best card of the day and be placed tied second alongside Yash Jindal who carded a three-under par 69 for the day for a gross of four-under par 140. Last week\u2019s Southern India Amateur champion Samarth Dwivedi was placed fourth a further two strokes behind at two-under par 142 followed by Jaibir Singh and overnight joint leader Jasjeet Singh at one-under 143.<\/p>\n Saqib, who began with an overnight score of two-over par 74, quickly got into top gear and was even par for the week after the 2nd hole itself with birdies on each of the opening two holes. He gained another stroke on the Par 5 6th hole to turn three-under for the day and one-under for the week. He gained a further three strokes with birdies on the 11th, 13th and 17th holes to finish a perfect round of golf of six-under 66.<\/p>\n Mane, meanwhile was his usual self beginning with a birdie on the opening hole followed by another on the Par 3 3rd where his tee shot fell pin high. A couple of dropped shots on the 4th and the 7th brought him back to even par for the day before he steadied the ship with birdies on the 8th, 14th and 17th to safely walk home ahead by three strokes at the end of round 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-isn-front-stories"],"yoast_head":"\n